I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 20 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Theresa Ahearn — the totally unacceptable condition of Scoil Carmel, Cashel, County Tipperary, a school for the mildly mentally handicapped; (2) Deputy Sargent — the need to expedite the application by St. Maur's regional cultural auditorium project at Rush, County Dublin, to the National Heritage Council for grant assistance; (3) Deputy Ellis — the problems relating to the Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry's offices in Sligo where people have to walk to the fourth floor to have problems dealt with; and the need to have facilities provided at ground floor level to accommodate callers; (4) Deputy Kenneally — the need for additional classrooms at Ballygunner national school in Waterford city; (5) Deputy Noel Ahern — the failure to reply to several requests from the European Commission in relation to waste management at Dunsink tiphead; (6) Deputy Dermot Ahern — the decision to move the divisional Garda headquarters from Dundalk, County Louth; (7) Deputy Michael Kitt — the need for the appointment of a remedial teacher to Mountbellew, Moylough, Cooloo and Briarfield national schools; (8) Deputy Lawlor — the difficulties that will arise for South Dublin County Council in the event of the transfer of Dublin Corporation properties to the council under the provisions of section 35 of the Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1993; (9) Deputy Quill — the failure of the private hospitals and the VHI to agree to a new contract, and the implications of this for patient fees; (10) Deputy O'Donoghue — the discovery of a large amount of cocaine on a beach in County Clare on Sunday, 26 February; (11) Deputy Tom Kitt — the steps, if any, that have been taken on behalf of the four lifeboat technical staff who have been made redundant by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution; (12) Deputy Ned O'Keeffe — the need to strengthen the law to protect against the influx of new age travellers from abroad; (13) Deputy Finucane — the need to provide funding for an extension to Ballyagran primary school, County Limerick; (14) Deputy McCreevy — remarks made by the Taoiseach regarding public servants and civil servants; and (15) Deputy Eric Byrne — the urgent need to regularise the position of those illegal immigrants who have been in the State for five years or more, who have committed no offence other than being illegal immigrants and who have no criminal record in their countries of origin.
The matters raised by Deputies McCreevy, Sargent, Lawlor and Dermot Ahern have been selected for discussion.